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Hi Aaron, when you mean by "exported result sets" the CSVs with the ranking data: I can open those, still they contain only the data from when I manually started a ranking check, not from the points of time when I wanted a scheduled task to run... Any idea?

Hi, Firstly Aaron I would like to say what a fantastic firefox add-on this is! It has cut my time spent in half! however I seem to have one glitch - which I am not sure if its just me or if others have the same issue. I have tried looking back through comments but don't seem to find the issue.

Every so often when I run a report, rank checker appears to freeze. It will get part way through and then just stay there. I have the symbol to say its searching but it just doesn't move on. Is it something I am doing? It only starts to work again, once I have shut down my PC and come back to it at another time. Just wondered if you could through any light on what I might be doing wrong please?

If you check your rank for too many keywords too quickly, Google will block you. You have to go on google.com (or whichever local google you were checking your rank with) and enter the captcha, then SEO rank checker will resume.

Yes, Totally agree with that if you check your ranking for many keywords quickly, Google will block you. Even if you are not able o check your page is cached or not. For that you have to go for displayed page having captcha image, enter that captcha and you are able to check or cached pages after short period of time.

Definitely a user-friendly interface! Thanks for the helpful video!
I'm looking forward to the added proxy settings!
In the scheduled tasks, will it some day be possible to set up different presets to run at different hours?
Thanks so much for a great tool!

Hi Aaron - thank you for these excellent tools you've provided! I've been referring people over whenever I can.

Lately though (in the last week or two), the preset ranking data isn't showing any available info in the ranking columns. It shows the domain, keyword and date column (with actual dates and timestamps) but nothing else. I noticed this happened after FF did a recent update to version 4 but not entirely sure that was the reason why. The normal rank checker pulls data and I can see ranking there but any of my past and new presets have suddenly killed off the ranking, indexed URL and engine columns. I tried to uncheck and recheck the search engines, or created a new preset to no avail. Any ideas? Thanks!

Just to clarify in the presets, this happened seemingly after the second update of FF4. It was working fine with the first version of FF4. I see domain, keyword & date/time info. The other columns (engine & url indexed) have disappeared completely. When I run the rank checker, it captures the date/timestamp but nothing else appears when I open up the CSV file.

Thanks Aaron, if I was looking at the update page correctly, i tried the following:
- removed and reinstalled rank checker, nada (updated the seo toolbar too)
- optimized the dbase first, nada
- emptied dbase, nada
I went so far as to delete the rankchecker.sqlite file and created a new preset campaign with sample keywords and that too was showing the same info while missing other columns as previously mentioned. I can only guess the database "table" for those missing columns was lost or corrupted but that's my very amateur guess. it still shows date/timestamps with keywords but no past ranking data. I'm stumped.

Hi jr202, sorry I missed your post here. When FF5 launched, I updated my browser from FF4 and then updated the latest version of SEO Toolbar 1.1.13 and Rankchecker 1.8.7. My presets now show data again in all of the columns. I never did figure out what the problem was but I know it wasn't just my desktop that had the issue. My laptop also experienced the same problem and they both work fine again. They retained all the data from before the issues started so that was a plus.

When i use google.com.au to search for "Connect Electricity" for connectnow.com.au it displays it in 5th position, but if i use rankchecker with google set to .com.au, it reports it as 12. I've noticed other tools do the same, since google now groups sites together (eg. all sites from same domain gets merged into a single result).

Is it possible to have an option to get a number as displayed on the website as opposed to pure position? For example i'm interested if the link displays on the homepage and where, rather than if i'm Xth best result for given keyword.

I'm engaged in academic research using rank checker to determine placement of a website in an area with 48 million pages indexed to a key word. I'd like to be able to set a maximum #, like 1 million, and if that site is not in the top million of those ranked for key words, the search would stop and say "over 1 million" or over 2 million, or whatever threshold I set.

Is there a way to do that now?

Similarly, I don't see a "stop button" that would tell me the results at the time it is stopped, essentially, "RankChecker checked the top 78,400 search results and did not find this website listed yet."

Any plans to make a chrome version of rank checker? I had to make the switch to Chrome just because of how slow firefox was being with many windows open. A chrome version of rank Checker would be great.

Greetings, I am also encountering the issue of "non exporting of results" to my CSV document, I only get the headers. This seems to be a hit and mix issue, if I continue trying to run a much smaller list, I find on the 3 or 4th try it seems to start allowing the exporting of results...like priming the pump. Other times, I have closed my FF browser and restarted...I have not hit on one specific thing that is consistent...One thing, I noticed that newly added "Keyword group:" and "Updated: " fields don't really indicate to me whether I will be able to export the data or not.
I am currently on FF5 w/ 1.8.7 of rank checker.....HELP!

Don't know if this will help, but after a number of unsuccessful attempts to get rank checker to export this morning, I finally tried entering 1 entry in the "keyword" field and my domain in the "Domain" field and ran that one query. After getting my result, I attempted to export and sure enough was able to export the data. I then ran about 10 queries using the "Add Multiple Keywords" as a second test and again was able to export the results, I then proceeded on with my tasks without further issues. However, this is not the end all fix....if I quit for a while or start the next day, I have to start over again.....

Same issue as above posters. Export to .csv only has column headers. Was able to produce a valid export once, but this seemed random and I have not been able to repeat. Could this be a FF5 issue? Please fix as I have been using this tool for 3 years, and I love it.
Running FF5 with RankChecker 1.8.7

The latest version of the tool for Firefox 5.0 is not exporting Data. Whenever I export a ranking report, it saves a empty file only with field names. It also does not copy the content from the tool to an excel file manually. I hope you can fix this.

Has anyone isolated the problem and found a resolution for the intermittent "not exporting any of the reported results" issue or the newest "Bing not reporting results" issue?
Regarding the Intermittent issue, I have had found that if I test with 1 query and am unable to export that result, then hit "clear" a couple of times, and run that single query once again, I am able to export successfully. At this point, I can usually begin running my queries without issue.
I see in the post between Arron and pswpromotion, some resolution regarding the Bing issue must have been offered....can that resolution be posted for others to try?

This tool is very handy even though I was not able to export csv. I set the wait time for 4 seconds, and while the tool was running a long list, I was doing some other searches online and Google blocked me for suspicious traffic, I answered the capcha and all was fine. I should probably use smaller batches of keywords with longer than 4 seconds delay. It's a great free tool, better than some I have paid for. Is there a work-around for exporting?

Hello- Myself and a few other employees recently upgraded to Firefox 5.0 and upgraded the compatible rank checker. However, for the last 5 days, it runs fine, but when you export to a CSV file, the file is empty except for the column headers. Any idea why or how to fix this?! It's an emergency!

I am having the same issue with Rank Checker.
I think this is a great tool and have been using it without issue for some time. I can only be hopeful that the SEO Book team can resolve this issue, as this is one of my favored SEO tools, free or otherwise.

I am having the same issue that a few others mentioned. FF5, and whenever I export the results to CSV it is just the headers. I also tried selecting all the results and doing a "copy all"...and that only grabs the headers as well. Ideas? Thanks!

I had issues with receiving (-) for ALL bing results for the past couple of days so in a moment of brilliance (or lack of) I uninstalled the rank checker extension. Try as I might for the past few hours I cannot seem to re-install the program regardless of how many times I click on download now or sign in . My IT department advised that the links on the page must be down and to contact the support desk. Can you send me the link please?

Love the extension! I was wondering if there was a way to remove just some of the older report data. I did a first run report, then scheduled it to run every 30 days. I then ran it manually a few times before the first 30-day autorun. I'd like to remove the data from those manual runs. Is that possible?

The upgrade to Firefox 5 didn't work at first, but it gave me another idea. I uninstalled Firefox completely before installing the newest version, and IT WORKED!! Bing results are coming across perfectly as well. Thanks Aaron!

I am checking rankings on google.com in India with personalised results turned off. There is a lot of variation in results of tool and manual checking. For one of the keywords, the tool show that the site is ranked on 49 but on manual checking, I am no where in top 150 results. Does the tool show actual rankings as visible on google.com if anyone is searching in America?

I used sqlitebrowser 200 b1 to view the data in the sqlite db. I exported the kws_data table as CSV, opened the CSV in Excel, deleted the offending date ranges, saved the CSV, imported it into the sqlite db as kws_data_new, deleted kws_data, and then renamed kws_data_new to kws_data. The db shows the data, but when I open Rank Checker in FireFox, it shows all zeroes across the board. Was my method faulty? Is there another table I need to modify?

I am an idiot, or at least was not paying close enough attention. I mistakenly renamed the table "kws_data" instead of "kw_data". I fixed that issue, and Rank Checker now displays the rankings as expected. Thanks!

Your Rank Tracker tool is the greatest. It is very generous of you to provide this freely to us, Thank You!!!
I have 2 domains with 10 keywords each, everything has been working fine, I run Rank Tracker everyday.
Today it stopped working returning only one search for the very first keyword for Google and that is it.
The page just keeps loading. Everything is updated and I did a new install of everything but did not help.
Any advice will be very much appreciated. I am a future customer in waiting.

I have the same issue as Joe above. When I unchecked yahoo search in the options, it would run completely for google and bing,. Then I unchecked google and bing in the options and tried to run just a yahoo search and not getting any results.

In most (perhaps not all yet, but certainly most) major markets Yahoo! is powered by Bing or Google. We will likely remove Yahoo! as an option in an upcoming version, as it is largely a parallel of the data from the original search engine technology provider.

I've been using Rank Checker for FireFox successfully for 7 months. Today when I tried to use it, when I press RUN it gets the Google rank for the first word on the list. Then it stalls and won't move forward with Yahoo or Bing for the first word, nor will it rank any other words. I end up having to close the app. I downloaded and reinstalled. I cleared the database. What else can I try?

I've been using Rank Checker for FireFox successfully for a long time, getting updated when needed. Earlier this wee when I tried to use it, when I press RUN it gets the Google rank for the first word on the list and then stalls and won't move forward with Yahoo or Bing for the first word.

I had the exact same problem as mentioned for two different computers. I updated my Firefox to the latest version, updated Rank Checker and it still stalls out. I attempted to remove Yahoo and Bing from options, but still no luck. I even rebooted my computer and no luck. Hopefully there's a simple trick to help us?

Same as many above... First Google Result shows, then the tool gets stuck on Yahoo! and I have to close it to move on. I opened the "Options" menu, unchecked "Yahoo" and now it is working. I guess we just do without Yahoo!

I upgraded to Firefox 5, but the RankChecker icon does not appear automatically in the toolbar even though it's listed in the add-ons page as functioning. I cannot add it manually to the toolbar, either. So, essentially, I cannot figure a way to use it now. I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox 5, but that did nothing...

I'm sticking with Firefox 4.01 for now because of the presence of too many bugs in the new browser. Is there a way to reinstall an old version of Rank Checker that is still compatible with this browser? Thanks again for anyone's thoughts!

Hi there.
I have been using Rank Checker for a year now and was amazed how easy and more importantly how 'free' it is.

Unfortunately over the last month I have seen such a huge decline in accuracy for the search engine results.
Rank Checker is now so inaccurate (often out by 50 positions or more) I now cant trust it and have to check the results manually for my clients which is agonising as I know it worked so well in the past.
I'm not sure if if the panda / farmer updates or other recent algorithm changes have affected the tool but I cant use it anymore.
Anyone else noticed this? Anything I can do to fix it or any updates coming soon?
All my searches for for Google UK, within the UK.
Thanks

Hi Aaron
As with many of the above I have issues running rank checker on yahoo and bing. So referencing your comment on the 21st July have you now removed these two directories from the checker? If so what would you recommend as an alternative?

My company is tracking our ongoing SEO for a client, and my boss and and I have gotten wildly-different Google rankings in the last few hours for about 200 keywords that all the pages on the site are targeting. At first we thought it was a result of the (poor) client website having duplicate-content and keyword-spamming penalties and issues (that we are addressing), but I see that other people seem to be having issues as well recently...

I am using FireFox 5.0 and Rank Checker 1.8.12 set to Google.com, personalization is off, delay set to 2. I check once a month. Both on 7/14/11 and again today, I ran my list of about 100 keywords. In the Google results, I only got results if the rank was 10 or less (although I did get one result that was 104) . I manually checked all of the keywords that resulted in "-" and most all had results in the 21 to 145 range (A few do still return no results under 200). This problem appears to have just started last month. Could it be related to a recent update?

Also, for Yahoo,this month I only got results for the first 27 keywords and then "-" for all the rest.
I love your Add-on. I sure hope you can fix it.

Aaron:
I've had the problem where Rank checker only reports results 1-10 and >=100. I was just playing with my Google settings., trying various things, turning on and off Instant and personalized results, 10, 50 100 results per page. I'm not sure exactly which change made it happen but suddenly Rank Checker was returning all results.

I tried to go back and turn on Instant - still works. I turned on personalized results - still works. Turned them both off - still works. I'm not sure how but maybe this will help you figure out why it wasn't working.

I run Vista with UAC turned off, and recently experienced a well-documented problem where registry permissions were corrupted. In my case it caused Office 2010 to run through configuration every time I started it.

At the same time RankChecker stopped working. With only Google.com checked, after a database optimization, it doesn't return any rankings and just rotates its little marker forever. Does RankChecker use the registry, and if so what keys? I'd like to check that their permissions are right.

Great firefox plugin, thank you SeoBook!
I searched all the feedback threads but couldn't find anyone else with this problem so maybe i'm being dumb, I only just started using it today so I'm sorry if I've missed something obvious.

I made some presets and scheduled 4 tasks (about 50 keywords across 4 sites) to run during my lunch hour. 4 hours later I'm getting the following message when I try to use Rank Checker:
"The Rank Checker scheduler is running. Can't open the main window now".
I'd have thought 4 hours was plenty of time for it to run my rank checks? Is there a way to manually disable the scheduler or reset it or something like that? All Rank Checker menu options (Run, Presets, Options, Scheduled Tasks are returning the same message so I can't use it at all.

Aaron - LOVE your add-on, I have been using it now for a couple years and never had a problem until now. I am not getting results in BING only the dashes. I manually checked with BING and my keywords are still in the top 10 positions. I am using 1.8.13 with both FF 5 and 6 (just upgraded to check if that was the issue).

Thank you SO MUCH for this tool, it is incredibly useful and I hugely appreciate that you're giving it out for free -- at this stage of my IM life, I sadly could not afford to pay, but I'll remember you guys when I hit the real money. :-)

Commenting here today to confirm Greg's experience, above -- using Rank Checker today, I also got no Bing results at all, just dashes, while the other two engines gave normal results. Using with FF6.

I have a continuing problem with the Rank Checker plugin which is awesome by the way!

I can get results back for google and Bing but everytime I search on Yahoo it hangs at the first result. Is there a solution or something causing this problem?

I'm using FF 3.6.22 and my preferences are set to 12 seconds so a fairly large pause between queries. It was working fine up until about 3-4 months ago but now it will not return any Yahoo results even if I specify to use Yahoo only.

Dear Aaron, I just downloaded Rank Checker, thanks for this great tool!
However, I can't export the results to CSV because at the end of the check the button(s) stay inactive. What do you recommend to do?

I was able to use this awesome tool for a couple of days with great results but now I can not add keywords. Nothing happens when I try to add using a single keyword or using the multiple keywords window. :(

My rank Checker no longer pulls results, just spins & spins ferever. I heard their might be an incompatibility issue with the most recent Firefox version updates...is that true. I last updated to Firefox 3.6.22. What must I do to get Rank checker working again?

I had that same problem Stuart, and the only way I could get it to work is to turn off checking Yahoo!. Then Google and Bing worked just fine and it completed my check. I first tried downloading the latest version of Firefox (version 8), then the latest version of the Rank Checker, only to find out that the Rank Checker is incompatible with Firefox 8. It would be nice if there were a page that listed which versions of Firefox the Rank Checker will work with! Maybe there is and I just can't find it. Anyway, try turning of the Yahoo! check and I bet it will work!

(Don`t use Google personalized search... is checked)
Why I get different results with Market Samurai and Rank Checker?

RC is giving lower position - is this because of clustering? Can you be more specific with "If you add &num=100 to the address bar in Google the results should be fairly well aligned with our tool. " - don`t know what to do.

Hi--I just got all your tools re-started, as I've taken on a new project. I had not tried Rank Checker before, but it's exactly what I've been looking for. I have one problem - when I go to export the data, I get the error message in Windows "no items match your search". I've tried both with just one keyword and several, tried uninstalling & reinstalling Rank Checker, but still can't export. (I'm using Firefox v. 7.0.1, and Windows 7.) I saw where people were having this problem last month & in August, but I didn't see any comments about a resolution. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi, Thanx!
BTW position is that the real position, counting from zero to e.g. 1.000.000 or the position of the page you're on? Unfortunately even though when I use google.nl, it's not working for .nl extensions. Pity. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm having a problem mentioned above where only results 1-10 and 100-110 actually show up. Obviously, this makes Rank Checker effectively useless...I read the above saying I needed to turn instant search off, but I've always had it off. I've reinstalled, I've updated, and this has persisted through a few different versions of FireFox at this point. I'd really appreciate some assistance in fixing this!

I have used a keyword with my domain name and I get the position of 7 returned by the tool but when I check directly with Google (UK) the domain name is actually in position 3 and 4. I think this might be because of the clustering method used by the tool, with it using 100 results at a time? Or its adding the two positions together?

However the domain name doesnt appear again in the results for quite a while (bottom of page 9 - so position 99?) and I dont see why it cant just tell me what my highest position is within the results - Surely this is the most important figure? At the very least I think you should be able to check a box in the options that forces the tool to return only the highest position.

I am an avid champion of RankChecker, thank Aaron. I have noticed in the past few days that it is timing out due to Google detecting automated requests much more frequently than normal. I usually run checks on 30-50 keywords at a time and can get through these with no problems. Now, the tool seems to be getting hung up after just 5-10 checks and blocked by Google. Anything change with Google that would be causing this to happen?

Yes, I tried various intervals and found that the checker was completing a higher percentage of queries at 7 sec+
I was previously at 3 sec, so perhaps Google has tightened the noose on checking for automated scripts a bit. thank you again.

I like the potential of this tool, but I can't get it to work. The 'bulk upload of keywords' will not run the rank check, nor will it save the keywords in the system once the program is closed. When manually adding keywords the tool will process but only reports '-' for results even with keywords that currently rank in the top 10 for our site.

First of all thanks for this great tool that i'm using since years to run my seo jobs.
Since the last update i am experiencing a major problem with the google.it search: every time that i run the serp search rank checker return on google.it always blank - although i'm sure that isn't true!
can you check that and fix .it?

Because i cannot update the operative system and so also firefox, last version for this os is 3.6.22, i need the older version of rank checker that work very fine until the update. The component is disappear from firefox menu.

I'm trying to match RankChecker results to manual browser results with some relatively significant inconsistencies (#14 manual check, and #24 in RankChecker results). I've verified these results on other computers in different locations.

I've done everything possible to disable personalized search from my browsers, including using a combination of Yoast's plugin, and 'Incognito Mode' in Chrome and 'Private Browsing' in Firefox. I stay signed out of Google and my cookies are cleared for these searches as well.

I'm able to use rankchecker to get serp ranking data and save it but how do you get it to add new data from today to yesterday's data and get a cumulative dataset or CSV?

If I save today's data it overwrites yesterdays. But in the screenshot shown on the homepage for the plugin it shows a column for date in csv like this: "domain, keywor, date, google rank, google result URL, etc...."

I've been using this awesome tool for just over a year, but I can't
a) add any more keywords to my list (or a new one) - is there a way to fix this? Using FF11 - tried optimising the database and that made no difference
b) I can't work out how to schedule the task as the tools menu is missing in FF11

Any help would be much appreciated.

In the mean time I've just been running my old keywords, but I'd love to be able to add more.

Will you be introducing the option to set the google extension per group? I have domains that I'd like to monitor the results for, but some groups need to check a different international version of Google to others and it would be great to have this option.

Hello there,
I'm a free member so I try to be as polite as posible :)
I found out this awesome ability to work and gather data in background, but cannot get the results.. Everytime i try to open rankchecker error appears: the scehuler is running. (it supposed so, as i scheduled to run @10am) But how long it can run? After few hours I'm able to open it and see NONE of the gathered data from scheduler. If I manually run the checker data appears.. Does anyone has any clue? File permissions? free-member? too much presets? Please reply, looking forward,
Mike

Hi, I LOVE RankTracker and I used it regularly for many months and always got great results! Thanks for such a great free tool, and I'm sorry free users were jerks and gave you a hard time about your great free tool!

As of about a month ago RankTracker quit giving me ANY Google results. I have confirmed with the Google SE page that I DO have rank, even when I am not logged in to google and don't have personalized results checked.

I am upgraded to the latest RankChecker as of minutes ago and am using Firefox 11.0. I have tried not using my saved searches and instead entering new searches into RankTracker. Same results: just "-" where numbers should be.

I checked manually on google and I can't show you a jpg but this is copied from Google using SEOBook:

As you can see I have #5 for the keyword "san ramon costa rica property". But it never shows up nor do any others for google for any of my web sites, I just checked.

What could possibly be causing this??? I looked for an answer on your site and didn't find anything under "rank check doesn't show google results" or "No google results" etc. Yes, it works fine for Bing and Yahoo.

Again, this always worked for google before and only recently quit working, about 2 months ago.

I'm sorry. I did not intend to create a link for my site. I just was copying the info from SEOBook on google to show you my rank and I forgot it had a live link in it. Please delete it if you wish, but PLEASE do answer my query! Thanks!

@seosoldier (and others with the same problem) if u are just getting '-' for rank position and u know u should be ranking, check to make sure u havent blocked googles javascript (google.com/gstatic.com) with something like the noscript plugin, i had the exact same problem and eventually after trial and error found that the rankchecker plugin does not get any results for google if google javascript is blocked in the main browser. hope it helps u out :)

@aaron thanks for the great plugin, just 1 quick query, whenever i have the rank checker window open it increases FF (versions 8~12) cpu usage significantly, even when it is not checking ranks and just open and idle in the background, any ideas what causes it?

I don't seem to be getting any results for any of my website listings on Page 2 of Bing. They recently started showing 8 results on Page 1 of Bing and 12 on Page 2 (9-20), so maybe that has something to do with the issue?

I've been using Rank Checker for several years and LOVE it. However, with the recent Panda and Penguin updates, people are saying that automated checking of SERP rankings have to be done by an authorized tool. Is Rank Checker an authorized tool in the eyes of Google? Or will using it affect my SERPs in any way? Thanks!

I'm looking at ALL the Google Guidelines and making sure I'm following them. In their guidelines, they say:

"Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google."

...and if you got hit by BOTH Penguin and Panda you are likely doing many things wrong.

It is always easier to blame others than to objectively evaluate one's own work though.

Also noticed the deflection from the above ... the "people are saying" people were never identified. Based on your willingness to cast blame on others, make stuff up & not objectively evaluate your own work, I would say you likely deserved to get penalized.

You probably needed to do your objective deep dive on the guidelines BEFORE you got penalized twice.

It is an incredibly useful tool. I really appreciate you making it available. I do have issues with getting locked out after doing 100 queries or so even if I put the search query frequency at 3 seconds or so. Is anyone getting the same results? If so, what frequency is the sweet spot?

Thanks for all the work you guys put in to Rank Checker. It's a great tool that I've grown to rely on. I've noticed a big difference lately in the results I'm getting vs. doing a manual search of Google, Yahoo, and Bing. So has one of my clients. RC gives a rank result of 45 and the actual results done using google directly and via a proxy service (to totally circumvent any personalization) is 12 on a test keyword. This kind of disparity happens on all keywords I've been testing. The sites are actually doing much better than RC indicates. I've cleared all history, cookies, etc and reinstalled the SEOBook toolbar and RC as well to try to debug why I might be getting differing results. Any thoughts or suggestions about this? Running FF 14.0.1. Thanks!

Many keyphrases on my site are positions 1 - 10 and the Rank Checker tools is showing them at 30+. Just checking the "google.com" in the settings doesn't seem to be using the proper US google results. How can I get this to work with the US results?

I don't seem to be getting accurate results as well. I did everything I could think of - I've even installed the latest version of Firefox. Still no accurate results. What can cause this or what ain't I doing right?

Thanks for the great tool! Earlier I tried to do the same with Google Custom Search API but found out that it puts limit on number of requests per day. The limit is 100 which is too small.
Is there any limit on the number of keyword searches for this tool too?
And if I use it extensively, will there be danger of Google blocking my IP address?

HI Aaron,
First off your tool rocks! I was wondering if when checking ranking it is looking for the rank of any page on the site or simply the home page. Also will I get different results if I enter the site with or without the www if 301 redirects have not been implemented.

... the non-www version that should return either version of the domain if it ranks, homepage or subpage. The ranking that is returned will be the highest ranking if both versions rank (though typically only one version will rank at any given time, due to duplicate content filters).

I have attempted now on 2 different computers to try running the Rank Checker and I cannot get it to work. I cannot submit/add a URL with single keyword or multiple keywords - Windows 8, and windows 7. I can however, access old stored files for seeraches run back in 2011 that were stored on the Win 7 computer... I read others have similar porblems... any solution?

I tracked one site of mine for a few days, but three days ago Google stopped showing up... as I'm not alone with this do you hav'n update for us as what may be causing this and what can be done about it?

Aaron and the rest of the staff. I cannot thank you enough for creating and updating this tool. It's a tool I've used since it's been introduced to both learn and maintain SEO for a number of businesses. The Rank Checker Add on has played a key role in this and I can't express my thanks to all of you.

As I said before, I've never had any issue using the tool since I started in 2009. Within the last few days, the tracking for Google has stopped working. I've tried it on multiple computers and different IP addresses. I've deleted and reinstalled in.

I know you all are incredibly busy. If you let me know if there's some sort of issue on my end or if there's an issue with the tool, I'd appreciate it. If you've decided to make a paid version, I'd be interested too.

Thanks again for creating and supporting this product! I look forward to an update.

Hi there. For years I've been using Rank Checker to excellent effect. Even though I can only check 15 or 20 keywords at a time, or else I get Google blocked. When I do get blocked, then usually I only have to solve a captca or wait a half hour and it works again. Now it's been days and I get NO results at all, even though Google works just fine in a regular browser.

Please advise how I might be able to correct the situation. This occurs with multiple computers in the same office.

Just installed Rank Checker with latest version of Firefox. I created a keyword group. After I click Open for it nothing happens. List of keywords does not appear in main window. Start button is grayed out. Closed Firefox and restarted. Same problem. Please advise.

Maybe I'm not doing something right or there's a glitch, but I can't seem to get this to work with YouTube videos. Does this work with videos? Is it supposed to?

When I enter a YouTube URL and a KW, nothing happens. But it works for standard URLs, so I don't think it's an issue with Rank Tracker but with YouTube URLs. No? Yes? Please advise.

These days, tracking video in Google search results is very, very important. If this isn't a feature in your software yet, please consider adding it. I'm still looking for a good solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Thought I'd found it but no joy. :-(

Hi Aaron - thanks for a great tool and a great site for really trustworthy advice and information.

I have been having a problem for a few weeks now but have tried another rank checker in the meantime. Would rathter use yours but it is frozen fro me. not sure why. here is the message I get when I click on any of the dropdown menu items. It seems to be installed fine. And it is the latest version. It is set to autoupdate.

The RankChecker scheduler is running. Can't open the main window now.

Would love anyone's help to get this figures out. I have searched for this in the thread here but did not find it (CTRL F Search for phrases)

Even with several seconds put into this setting we get blocked by the search engines when we are tracking lists of more that 15 keywords. Yahoo is the worst about this, with Google coming in a close second.

I have found that goosing up the setting to about 12 or 13 seconds delay helps. But its much slower to use. Running as a background process is good though.

Would it be possible that this coutesy setting could have a slight randomization function, say something like plus or minus 2 or 3 seconds relative to the target setting, in order to more closely create a human activity immulation of sorts?

Also, any thoughs about how to automate the rank checking process, includins saving and exporting the results?

Let me begin by saying that Rank Checker is a great tool and i use it frequently. I have seldom ran into any issues, but yestereday i noticed that my site was ranking on page 1 for keywords: 'Diving, Scuba and Scuba Dive'. If this were true, i'd be asking for a raise, but i do not believe it to be so.
What i believe is happening, is that Rank Checker is returning local map resutls. This is true for searches in my local area, but outside the area, our site would show up.
In Rank Checker Settings, i 'checked' the "Dont use personalized results", but it still returns local resutls. How do i get the true global rank stats?

HI Aaron. I am fairly new to this but I love Rank Checker! It's Fantastic.
I having a problem with the scheduled tasks. The scheduled tasks run - but take a long time. I have left it running for a few hours but still get "The RankChecker scheduler is running. Can't open the main window now.", no matter how long I leave it for.
The only way I can get it to stop is to close all browser windows in firefox - but then I lose all my data.
Any advice into why this is happening? or how to get around this?

When trying to use the "add multiple keyword' box I simply cannot get it to work anymore. I reinstalled Firefox (v27.0.1) and the Rankchecker addon but problem remains. MAC OS 10.9.1
Do you have a fix for this?
Thanks.

Hi Aaron, Amazing product! However, as of late, every time I clicked on the link to run Rank Checker, the window displaying the page has expanded bit by bit. It has now expanded to the point where the borders of the page extend past the viewing size of my monitor. It is now to the point where I can no longer see the bar at the time nor the 'Start' and 'Export to CSV' buttons at the bottom. Indeed, all I see now is a competetly white screen rendering Rank Checker inaccessible and useless. The problem started a few days ago wheh I noticed that when the window came up, it blotted out my Windows 7 task bar at the bottom. I removed it and re-installed and made sure I had the most up to date Firefox - it is still displaying the white screen.

I'm having the "white screen" issue also. It appears to open to a wider window that IS resizable if you press the windows key/left click your mozilla firefox icon on the toolbat (if you have one pinned)/right click Rank Checker and Maximize window. It's a work arround but I hope it gets fioxed soon. GREAT tool!

I really like this tool and it has some very useful features. However, one thing that I though was lacking was the ability to save the search engine settings for each keyword group.
Also, in the video you say you can click on the domain to see that domain in the SERPs but it didn't work for me.

When I use the rankchecker tool, how come the full google filepaths no longer show. I am now only getting rank reports for the homepage of each site and not the actual file paths that the page ranks for anymore. Is this something you can fix because knowing which page actually ranks versus just the homepage is very helpful. Thanks and great tool!!

I agree with the above comment.. I have been using this tool for over 4 years and this recent updated just showing the home page is not helpful at all.. in fact, it may cause me to find a completely different tool altogether.. it is sad, because up until today, I really liked this tool, but now it will cause me to do more work as I will actually have to check the search results manually to see which url is ranking, not all of us build links to just the home page...thanks for looking into a fix to make this what is was before today...

I'm mac using FF 29.0.1 and do not get any Bing results. I have tired turning off Yahoo and re-running but no luck. I'm using www.lendingtree.com" for the domain and "home loans" for the keyword since I manually checked and that's coming up #1 or #2 consistently (in both Bing and Google). However, Google recognizes it and reports whereas Bing just shows "--" and nothing.

I turn on Yahoo and that also comes up with "--" yet a manual check there also shows they are positioned in organic results. Any suggestions that you may have to offer would be greatly appreciated.

rank checker is really a big help but these year, the Bing still don't shows results ..all keywords were (-) ..you need to manually check to get the rank..is tthere any update or advise on these issues??

It works far better than all the other expensive version I have bought. Please remove the 100 keyword limit! Or create a paid version that removes the 100 keyword limit to unlimted. Thanks for the great tool!!

... is we can't provide both free software and free 1 on 1 support. In the past we have provided support to people who have donated to a charity like CharityWater as a way of both helping a good cause and adding some friction to ensure the people on the other end valued our time. Lately though we've been a bit swamped for the past few weeks to a month or so, upgrading various pieces of this site, other sites, and such.

First off, this is a great tool and saves me so much time! I can get straight to playing around with variables instead of wasting an hour or so getting the results first.

One issue I have is to do with spellings and Google suggesting search results. I'm based in the UK and we spell words like "moulded" with a "u". However, if I put this in, Google automatically gives me results for "molded"
and I have to click the option see my "moulded" results. This happens if I'm on google.com or google.co.uk.

This is translating into the Rank Checker and so some of my searches always return nill. Is there any way to force the checker to search the terms I've entered instead of polling Google's first set of results.

... if they reinterpret the search query for you, then that is also what they do to the typical search user. Few users will click on the "did you mean" link (& if enough people were clicking on that link, then Google would stop mutating/reinterpreting the search query on their end).

You could wrap your keyword in quotes to tell Google to search precisely for a keyword (e.g. "moulded"), but that is something most of the broader search audience will not do (and doesn't even known how to do). So you really need to try to rank your site for whatever version Google is preferencing & perhaps try to rank it for both, such that if the preference turns you are still ranking for the other version.

i've been using the rank tracker tool for quite a while now, with great success.
However during a fresh install today, i've found that i can't add any scheduled tasks. When i click on the dropdown list, there isn't anything to select. I do have a preset ready, which i've used on manual tracking.
I'm using FireFox 34.0.5 with the latest download of the extention.

Like the previous poster (wouterio) when i click on the dropdown list, it's empty - but i have saved two keyword lists. Running FF35.0 current version of extension.
I'd also like to say thanks for this free tool! I've been a member for years but returned here to track a small campaign that some sites would like to charge $99 a month to do!

Hello Aaron,
I'm using Rank Checker since years now. I don't use it often but quiet regularly. I'm sure once I had no problem with search in Yahoo but some time ago I noticed that every saved keyword set for a couple of domain names (three indeed: two for my country and one for "global" search) fail in Yahoo. At first I thought I was banned and I had to wait some time but I was never been able to retrieve data for Yahoo! Have I been banned forever?!
Thank you

1.) If you read the download page it offers usage advice & tips on not getting blocked.
2.) In addition to the above, there is a significant overlap in organic results between Bing & Yahoo!, so if you are struggling to pull data from Yahoo! you can deselect it & rely on Bing to be a generally/roughly representative sample/baseline.
3.) If #1 and #2 don't work for you, then you can pay for a hosted rank checking service.

I applied 5 seconds for delay since long time but... I just noticed that one site for which I don't get results in Yahoo, also get no results for Bing! For the second site I get results for Bing but not for Yahoo. Just for the third there's no more issues. Isn't it quite strage?

BTW, can you suggest an affordable hosted rank checking service? I only need this functionality and not for more than those three sites.